Jim Schweizer

Why I don't invest in AI stocks... yet. "Pricing disconnected from value is not a business model. It is a transitional arrangement that lasts exactly as long as buyers have no alternative." That's token pricing in a nutshell. DeepSeek instead of ChatGPT, Qwen instead of DeepSeek, until it's free.

Asked an AI for jam band recs. Got four great albums to find, but it may have dreamed one up. Most Deadhead thing a computer has ever done. jimschweizer.substack.com/p/book-a-dat...

It looks like a garbage scow... a rust bucket, not the pride of a fleet!

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Chicago’s urban agricultural history possesses a deep foundation. Massive mobilization during WW II meant the city maintained over 1,500 community gardens and 250,000 home gardens. It led the nation in urban food production serving as the official model for US municipal victory garden programs.

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We lost an ancient oak recently, the ghost of its stump rings date to the first electric streetlights. A good metaphor for 2026. What AI is doing to daily life in Chicagoland, the K-economy, analog sovereignty, and a civic question our city keeps avoiding. open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

“We did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have these capabilities. Rather, they emerged as a downstream consequence of general improvements in code, reasoning, and autonomy.” Emergent abilities - yep...

The lady doth protest too hard, methinks...

Hmmm, I hadn't considered this, in addition to the insurance risks: "Say it's reopened … we're going to see an outflow of a lot of those vessels. But the question is, are vessels willing to go back inside the Strait of Hormuz?" - June Goh, oil analyst

A whole civilization may indeed be destroyed tonight - the fossil fuel powered global civilization.

I wonder what will happen when I combine this desktop (that reflects my brain) with a vibe coding environment. Yeah, you know I am going to do this 😆! www.makeuseof.com/tried-hyprla...

"Vibe coding doesn't replace thinking. It just makes thinking the job."

The second Trump presidency was always going to end in complete disaster. It will just take a while for some on the right to catch up to the reality it's happening now.

Go Chicago! Photo credit Arthur Maiorella - Chicago Block Club

#AI gives you a place to finally say the thing out loud. To find the words. To figure out which part of the mess is actually shareable. But then you still have to make the phone call. The machine can help you find the crack in the wall. Only another human can walk through it with you.

Monday morning. World's a lot to think about right now. Vibe coding is real. The continuity problem it exposes is realer. If you need 5 minutes on something you can actually do something about, read: Everyone Can Vibe an App Now open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

"By the end of 2027, it threatened every business model predicated on intermediation. Swaths of companies built on monetizing friction for humans disintegrated." www.citriniresearch.com/p/2028gic

Remember Google Glass or Clawdbot? Yeah, me too. Sometimes the gamechanger... doesn't change the game. Vibe coding is here to stay. BUT there's a catch nobody's talking about at the demo.👇 Everyone Can Vibe an App Now open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

Another pic of local high school students being patriotic Americans.

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High School students in Aurora take the day off and take it to the streets! We will all be doing this soon enough.

genuinely stunning image

Open Source, runs locally, autonomous and protects your AI data sovereignty - what's not to like about a clone of Claude Code? I'm going to find out today! block.github.io/goose/

In case the long weekend buried this: "Vibe coding" went from meme to mainstream in under 12 months. If you're still wondering whether AI is "real," you're already behind. Catch up below. #VibeCoding #AI #FutureOfWork Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL? open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

I wrote about that "Internet moment" I mentioned yesterday. What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a collaborator? It's happening now - in Aurora, IL of all places. #VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #BuildInPublic Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL? open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

Been "vibe coding" ideas with Claude Code for a couple of weeks. My thinking about workflow will never be the same. Remember that moment when you really internalized the realization that the Internet would change your life? It's that kind of moment.

LLMs? Yesterday's news. LRMs? Here now. LAMs? Coming fast. The question isn't keeping up. It's building something that survives the parade. Building an AI Partnership open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

Most Chicagoland natives don't know: Aurora's founder arrived in 1834 to find a thriving Potawatomi village. The chief's lodge was engineered so well, a professional millwright marveled at it. (Multiple AIs were used in writing this fiction.) Fish for Bread open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

"We know it works. We don't know why it works. And honestly, we're moving too fast to figure that out." Sound familiar? The Preservation Problem open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

Multi-Platform Reality Real talk: I use multiple AIs for different things. This week Google's ahead, so I'm exploring their ecosystem more deeply. Which AIs are in your toolkit? Why? AI Leaderboard open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

Week 3: The question that's reshaping how we think about AI value: "Which AI is smartest?" vs "Which combination creates the intelligence my work actually needs?" One keeps you on the leaderboard treadmill. The other puts you ahead of it. The Intelligence Between open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

Tomorrow, Week 3 of our relational AI series: jimschweizer.substack.com

Here's a quick recap of our AI collaboration series: Week 1: Your AI is making you faster at working wrong Week 2: The problem isn't capability - it's memory. (link below) Current AI remembers what you said but forgets why it mattered The Completeness Principle open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

This Thanksgiving, be grateful your family remembers why things matter, not just what was said. Your AI? Not so much. Week 2 of our relational AI discussion explores why dimensional memory beats data retrieval every time. The Completeness Principle open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

The looming divide: one sees AI as liberation, another sees loss of authenticity, autonomy erosion, and reduction of humans to optimization targets. A synthesis of selective AI augmentation, democratic governance, and recognition that some domains should remain primarily human offers a third path.

Are your AIs making you incredibly efficient at the wrong things? Here's why companies with massive AI innovation plans aren't seeing their bottom lines improve - and what you can do about it in your planning. Your AI is Making You Faster open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...

The people who need to read this don't yet know they're in this field. They are in your kitchen, your friend's house and on every corner of every block. Relational AI is already here, people are already doing it, but you haven't really thought about it, yet. jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-archit...

Crypto loses billions to fraud. Aurora, IL wastes IT money on Vegas junkets. Bob's not anti-technology or anti-government, he's just pro-accountability. Neither has earned his trust. Yet. jimschweizer.substack.com/p/bobs-thoug...

Laughed so hard at this that a Japanese woman on the shinkansen shushed me

A government that will lie about everything from warfare to welfare isn’t going to make an exception for an ongoing pandemic. Covid is not over.

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

Our latest Substack explores what happens when your AI knows you better than your therapist, why empathy atrophy is now a technical term, and whether we're building humanity's greatest productivity unlock or most sophisticated self-distraction mechanism. jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-relati...

The face of urban #AuroraIL economic development was/is just beginning to shine with new downtown living space next to the train station:

This month the collection grew with Funkadelic's Maggot Brain remix (180 gm) and In The Court Of The Crimson King (50th Anniversary Edition On 200 gm vinyl)... Heavy listening!

Broke a Murano art glass piece this morning while cleaning up a dog mess. At least we got to enjoy its beauty for a while, and the puppy is feeling better. An anecdote for the times?

Grateful for the response to this piece about a series of unfortunate IT expenditures. Sometimes the best way to document institutional dysfunction is to let the absurdity speak for itself. jimschweizer.substack.com/p/auroras-re...

The right plays the game so much more effectively than our side does. We have to stop letting them do this shit.